Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-02-02
STATE NEWS.

State University, has placed his
resignation in the hands OF the board
of regents to take effect at the close
of the present year. President Plckard
has been the head OF that university
since 1878. The assigned cause Tor
this step is i'll health.
The cranberry growers have organ
lied q state association for the pur-
pose of gathering from all sources
KNOWLEDGE useful in growing, protect
ing, picking and marketing cranber-
ries and disseminating the same TO all
of it's members. Officers were elected
as follows: President, r. c. Treat, OF
Meadow Valley; secretary and treas
urer. G. E. Warmer, of New Lisbon;
executive committee, A. @. Brooks, of
Norway Ridge; G. A. Marvin, Of
Mather, and A. It. Wilson, OF Niece
dab
MRS. PAUL KLUNB, Of Sevastopol,
Door County, saved q little daughter
from being burned to death by throw.
ing her out into snoWbank.
G. M. CLARK, a restaurant keeper OF
Mason City, a., and a son OF William
Clark, of Prairie du CHEN, shot and
killed himself at the latter place. FL
nancial trouble is claimed to have
been The cause. He leaves a wife and
two children.
JOIN GRIFFIN and Charles Landers,
two tramps in the county jail at Mao
son, INDUCED In row in the corridor
OF the Jail. Griffin finally struck Lam
ders over the head with a piece OF
wood. The latter died from the effects
and Griffin will be held for manslaugh-
ter. Griffin is said to hailfrom Phila.
delphia.
The Milwaukee Light Horse Squad
ron will organize snOWshOe club.
THE United States Lighthouse Board
has decided upon plans for the new
beacon to be erected at North Point,
Milwaukee, and work upon the struct-
ure will be begun as soon as the
weather will permit.
The President has approved the act
amending the act providing for the
sale of the Sac and Fox and Iowa In
dian reservations.
A PASSENGER train on the Buriing.
ton Road, That left ST. Paul at 9:15
on the Goth, south bound, ran over q
sleigh-load OF people, s. mile south Of
Nelson, killing one and injuriug three
seriously and perhaps fatally. There
were five people in the sleigh, four be-
ing residents of Wabash, who had been
to Alma attending the Burns festival
and dance. The fifth was Isaac Tute-
ur, q wholesale liquor merchant of La
Crosse, who had been invited to ride
with the party. The driver saw the
train coming, but thought he would
be able to cross ahead of it. The en-
CINE struck the sleigh squarely, demol-
isning it and throwing the occupants
IN the air. Alex. Dreamp, engineer on
a steamboat, was killed; VIM. Mailer,
blacksmith, J. e. Ichenberger, butch
er, and James Kane, a. saloon-keeper,
injured. Mr.. Tuteur escaped with O.
trlhing scratch on the face. The IL
Jured men were taken to Alma.
In the circuit court at Milwaukee
on the Goth, the jury in the case of
Nancy Heucke against the Milwaukee
City Railway Company regurned g.
verdict awarding the plaintiff damages
in the sum of 81, 600 The suit was
brought to recover damages in the
sum of SIS, 900.
THE family of August Yungwall. liv-
ing In the West Division, Eau Claire.
we're nearly aphyxiated by coal gas
issuing from stove in which the
hampers were left closed. Two men,
bers we're suffocated to such an extent
as to render them unconscious and
much difficulty was experienced in ef-
fectlng reaction.
BY confession made to a priest,
and published by him, it appears that
Puetz and Mccullough, the two boys
sentenced to imprisonment for the as.
sault and robbery of a street-car
driver in Milwaukee on November IL,
1888, were entirely innocent OF the
crime. The name of the self-confessed
criminal is not given.
THE house OF A. Baldwin, situated
on his farm about four miles from
Shell Lake, was burned down. Very
little of bis household furniture was
saved. No insurance. A SUI scription
list has been started for the unfortu-
nate farmer.
Gov. RUsK has apr ointed the fol-
lowing as aides-de-camp on his staff,
with the rank of colonel: G. T..
Cooley, Madison; W. A. Wyse, Reeds.
burg; Otto Il. Falk and G. w. Mott
Milwaukee.
AN employe in Alexander's logging
camp on Sand Lake, north OF Eau
Claire, named Erickson, got his leg
fastened in q skidway, and heavy
log rolled over him, crushing his head
and the upper part of his body into a
Jelly. The home of the deceased Wa 8
at Bloomer.
OLE HICKMAN, a young man living in
the Second Ward, Madison, attempted
suicide while walking along the street
with a companion, by drawing the
blade of a pocket knife across his
throat. The blade struck the lower
jaw-bone, making a fearful cash. He
was supposed to be laboring in a fit
OF temporary dementia.
Girls or Modern Greece.
The modern Greeks are, in one re-
spect at least, aiming as high as the